Bicentennial Story #107-Purpose of forts

Bicentennial Story #107-Purpose of forts

Description of the purpose of the forts built in North Dakota.

9/26/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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English

BS-107

North Dakota

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

A century or so ago, Dakota Territory was dotted with military posts, such as Forts Pembina, Totten, Abercrombie, Seward, Ransom, Stevenson, Buford, Berthold, Rice, Lincoln and Yates. Their purpose was to guard the trails and routes of settlers going West, to protect the agents and agency workers on the Indian Reservations, and to subdue the Indians and prevent them from molesting the railroad builders and the frontier settlements. And since many of the fur traders were Southern sympathizers, the troops at Forts Rice, Berthold and Union were to hold the Upper Midwest for the North, as well as against the English who were making inroads on the fur trade.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 107, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

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Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107